Magnificent Bastards
- ISBN-10
- 074811873X
- ISBN-13
- 9780748118731
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-03-04
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Author
- Rich Hall
Description
Comic genius Rich Hall introduces a series of magnificent bastards and lost souls in this hilarious collection of tall tales. Meet the man who vacuums bewildered prairie dogs out of their burrows; a frustrated werewolf who roams the streets of Soho getting mistaken for Brian Blessed; a smug carbon-neutral eco-couple; a teenage girl who invites 45,000 MySpace friends to a house party; the author of a business book entitled Highly Successful Secrets to Standing on a Corner Holding Up a Golf Sale Sign and a man whose attempts to teach softball to a group of indolent British advertising executives sparks an international crisis.
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